Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits ...

The filmmaker, who died this week, mixed the menacing with the everyday, the banal with the surreal and sublime.

If you’re a new driver taking to wintry roads for the first time in a modern car, you might be surprised to encounter a little vehicular weirdness from time to time, and this might leave you ...

The Color of Pomegranates” was no exception. The use of Armenian artifacts, instruments and everyday items was extremely common in the film, with every scene featuring some collage of these pieces.

This year’s Prototype, a showcase of experimental opera and theater, was stylistically broad but the focus was on the human voice in all its weirdness. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Even before ...

Mr. Schwitzgebel is a professor of philosophy at University of California, Riverside, and the author of “The Weirdness of the World.” From one day to the next, you inhabit one body ...

Facing the philosophical knottiness of climate change is scary, because it goes against the grain of our prevailing solution-seeking pragmatism. But what happens if we truly embrace the complexity ...

Hay bales near Bombay Beach and Salton City, California, are a project meant to reduce dust and save bird habitat. At first glance they look like an art project. (Photo by Dennis Hinkamp) Fascinating ...